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Subject: generate a notice for bogus function calls
From: nlopess@php.net ("Nuno Lopes")

Hi,

Although this is not as hot as references or Unicode stuff, I would like to 
discuss a new topic.
Currently PHP accepts more parameters to a function than the required.
In English:
<?
function a($b) {}
a(1,2,3);
?>

PHP accepts this and generates no errors. My purpose is to start generating 
an E_NOTICE, just like we do for not yet initialized variables.
This behaviour has already beaten me for a couple of times, because I had a 
program with functions with similar names, but with different number of 
parameters. The result for calling the wrong function? A nice infinite loop 
:)

I hope this is not hard to implement (maybe in the parser, to get the errors 
on compile time - for performance).

Regards,
Nuno